#principles

When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote the values and principles of a free and open society. ↗

— George Soros

#foundation #free #had #i #made

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#executive #free #legislative #lost #nominated

We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#capable #complexity #construction #creature #drive

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God. ↗

— Martha Graham

#athlete #becomes #dance #dancing #god

Having removed the dictator, the allies have moved to put Iraqis in control of Iraq. Now, as they draft and ratify their Constitution, we will indeed see the character of a new Iraqi nation revealed through the principles it chooses to uphold. ↗

— Kay Granger

#character #chooses #constitution #control #dictator

The impression I have of Justice Warren is that he was looking for the just result in a case regardless of fixed dogma or principles and I like to think that I'm in that mold. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#dogma #fixed #i #impression #just

The importance of the facts testified, and their relations to the affairs of the soul, and the life to come, can make no difference in the principles or the mode of weighing the evidence. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#come #difference #evidence #facts #importance

I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes. ↗

— William Hague

#change #changes #i #i think #modern

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#anything #governments #history #learned #never

The spirit in which the offer was made must of necessity contribute to improving and alleviating the situation of the Jewish people without our renouncing one iota of the great principles upon which our movement is based. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#based #contribute #great #improving #iota